A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed

HOW ODD THAT MASSACRES MOSTLY HAPPEN IN "GUN-FREE ZONES"! When will the brain-dead Left wake up and draw the obvious conclusion? Gun bans kill kids

Sunday, September 06, 2015

Second Amendment Support Growing in Black Community

An article in The Florida Courier, which labels itself as "Sharing Black Life, Statewide", illustrates that black citizens of the United States' attitudes toward guns and the Second Amendment are changing. Nowhere in the article did I detect a sentiment in favor of more legal restrictions. From fcourier.com:

“For
the average responsible Black person I believe it is very beneficial to
have a CCP. I believe that many Blacks are afraid of guns. The reason
is they have never been properly trained on how a firearm works. Once
they get that understanding, they are eager to own and carry a firearm,”
he added.

“If enough Blacks obtained a CCP and were properly
educated, then many of our neighborhoods would safer – one street at a
time,” Barrs concluded.

Barrs is also an NRA supporter.

“There
are a lot of benefits of NRA membership,” he said. “They not only
advocate for Second Amendment rights, but also provide insurance for
one’s weapons along with other perks. I’ve been a member for two years
and strongly advise becoming a member,” he continued.

This article is part of a trend that has accelerated in the last few years. With President Obama's push for ever more legal restrictions on the ownership and sale of guns, the Second Amendment and infringements on it have gotten a lot of attention. The more people learn, the more they are converted to Second Amendment supporters. There is even a name for this effect. It is called "the shooting cycle". In this last cycle, the effect was dramatic. From the PewResearchCenter:

Over the past two years, blacks’ views on this measure have changed dramatically. Currently, 54% of blacks say gun ownership does more to protect people than endanger personal safety, nearly double the percentage saying this in December 2012 (29%). By contrast, whites’ views have shown less change: 62% now view guns as doing more to protect people, up from 54% in December.

Most black people are not criminals. But the black population has a much higher percentage of criminals. Honest black people bear the brunt of the crimes committed by those criminals.

Once someone is able to get beyond the propaganda that it is guns that are causing the crimes, they have ample reason to support the right to arms and self defense.

Black Criminals in the hood are not interested in the Second Amendment, taking concealed carry classes, and being safe while using exercising their rights to defense of self and others. A recent study in Chicago emphasised the point.

Still, it is interesting to note that the majority of respondents
demonstrated little knowledge of firearms. Many of the comments by Rs
demonstrated ignorance of the manner in which firearms function, the
ammunition requirements and the capabilities of their weapon of choice.
Rs never discussed safe handling or storage practices, nor did they
mention efforts to improve their knowledge of the firearms they
possessed.9

The gun culture welcomes responsible black people. When people in a community accept the rule of law and cooperate with police, violent crime rates drop dramatically.

Being legally armed is a strong indicator that the rule of law applies to you, that you have rights, and a reason to support the system that supports your rights. The Crime Prevention Research Center has evidence that the number of minority permit holders is growing fast. From the CPRC:

-- Some evidence suggests that permit holding by minorities is increasing more than twice as fast as for whites.

It remains to be seen what effect black Second Amendment supporters will have on the politicians who have them as constituents.

2 comments:

Anonymous
said...

I find it interesting that military training is discounted by so many. there is a high number of blacks in our military and they get the same training as white and others. How is having your weapons locked up or as the NRA claims properly stored allowing those arms to be used in self defense. any given situation may require a different weapon. Mister burglar please wait while I get my safe open and the trigger lock off. Mister attacker You can not attack me until I am able to get my gun ready. a person breaking down my door will get an instant load of 12 gage double oo buck shot In the face with pieces of the door. I will not be throwing a safe at him. I was raised around guns and did not need the military training I had to take. Why is opening a safe or removing a trigger lock better than military training use better. the morons that design gun laws can not justify most of what those laws require. especially when safety instructors shoot them selves unloading their own weapons. Suppose you have a suspended drivers license, You see an accident that requires driving a car to save a life do you let that person die to avoid breaking the law? If you have to use a gun to save a life is there time to go get a permit? If your humanity doe not allow for a delay why should a law exist to do the same. Permits are a sick idea. Personal responsibility is the key to safety. a registration number or a piece of paper is an unnatural limit on the right to keep and bear. every living person is entitled to self defense. the taking of game for food is a natural right. It is one of those un enumerated rights the tenth amendment says we have. anyone of any age needs to eat. there is no definition of what arms are in the constitution. shall not infringe is still plain English.

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Background

“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” -- Thomas Jefferson

Syndicated columnist Charley Reese (1937-2013): "Gun control by definition affects only honest people. When a politician tells you he wants to forbid you from owning a firearm or force you to get a license, he is telling you he doesn’t trust you. That’s an insult. ... Gun control is not about guns or crime. It is about an elite that fears and despises the common people."

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles -- Jeff Cooper (1920-2006)

Note for non-American readers: Crime reports from America which describe an offender just as a "teen" or "teenager" almost invariably mean a BLACK teenager.

We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.

Two lines below of a famous hymn that would be incomprehensible to Leftists today ("honor"? "right"? "freedom?" Freedom to agree with them is the only freedom they believe in)

First to fight for right and freedom,
And to keep our honor clean

It is of course the hymn of the USMC -- still today the relentless warriors that they always were.

The intellectual Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) said: "The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

How much do you know about Trayvon Martin? Did you recognize him in the picture above? If not you may need to know more about him. It's all here (Backups here and here)

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” -- Robert A. Heinlein

After all the serious stuff here, maybe we need a funny picture of a cantankerous cat